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Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
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"Underneath the kitchen floor is the world of the Borrowers--Pod and Homily Clock and their daughter, Arrietty. In their tiny home, matchboxes double as roomy dressers and postage stamps hang on the walls like paintings. Whatever the Clocks need they simply 'borrow' from the 'human beans' who live above them. It's a comfortable life. Comfortable--but boring if you're a kid. Only Pod is allowed to venture into the house above, because the danger of...
Author
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
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Description
Driven out of their cozy house by the rat catcher, the Borrowers find themselves homeless. Worse, they are lost and alone in a frightening new world: the outdoors. Nearly everything outside--cows, moths, field mice, cold weather--is a life-threatening danger for the tiny Borrowers. But as they bravely journey across country in search of a new home and learn how to survive in the wild, Pod, Homily, and their daughter, Arrietty, discover that the world...
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Series
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
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Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock--the miniature Borrowers--depend for their livelihood on the "human beans" whose cottage they live in. So when they discover that their humans are moving away, the Borrowers are forced to find a new home and a new family to borrow from. With the help of the wild Borrower boy Spiller, they make a harrowing journey down the cottage drain in a soap dish and are soon living in a teakettle by a river. But the poor Borrowers...
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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Description
Pod, Homily, and Arrietty Clock's huge adventures have been thrilling children young and old for fifty years—and their appeal is as strong as ever in The Borrowers Aloft. The original beloved interior illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush have been retained, capturing these little people with a larger-than-life appeal.
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Together in one volume, here are complete versions of Mary Norton's five beloved bestselling books about the tiny, stouthearted Borrowers.
Put this volume into the hands of little readers—or of any reader who delights in classic adventure. Includes complete editions of The Borrowers, The Borrowers Afield, The Borrowers Afloat, The Borrowers Aloft, and The Borrowers Avenged. These editions include the original charming
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Publisher
Lyrical Shine / Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First print edition.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Marley Stevenson never imagined her stint as a rented Maid of Honor would practically become a career. Then again, nothing in her life has gone according to plan. At least the money's good-and she needs it to pay off student loans and help out her mom. But the job has rules, which have never been an issue...until one encounter with a gorgeous best man-and his swoon-worthy Southern accent-sends Marley reeling. Determined to get through the weekend...
Author
Series
Knights of the borrowed dark volume 2
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
416 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Life is returning to normal for Denizen Hardwick. Well, the new normal, where he has to battle monsters in quiet Dublin bookshops and constantly struggle to contain the new powers he has been given by Mercy, the daughter of the Endless King. But Denizen may need those powers sooner than he thinks - not only are the Tenebrous stirring again but the Order of the Borrowed Dark face a new threat from much closer to home...
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Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Hundreds of years in the future our civilization is shrunk down but we go on. There is advanced technology, there are robots. And there are clones. E.A. Smithe is a borrowed person, his personality an uploaded recording of a deceased mystery writer. Smithe is a piece of property, not a legal human. As such, Smithe can be loaned to other branches. Which he is. Along with two fellow reclones, a cookbook and romance writer, they are shipped to Polly's...